Bieber arrested in Miami Beach on DUI, drag racing charges

WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AS A PRECAUTION. FLORIDA HIGHWAY PATROL IS INVESTIGATING. ALSO DEVELOPING THE STORY THAT HAS TAKEN OVER THE INTERNET. JUSTIN BIEBER, BUSTED IN MIAMI. IT HAS BEEN A WILD 18 HOURS FOR THE POP SUPERSTAR. HE WENT FROM HAVING A FUN NIGHT TO SPENDING THE MORNING BEHIND BARS. HE WAS PULLED OVER FOR STREET RACING EARLY THIS MORNING. AND ARRESTED FOR DRUNK DRIVING, RESISTING ARREST AND DRIVING WITH AN INVALID LICENSE. HE WENT BEFORE A JUDGE THIS AFTERNOON. YOU CAN SEE HE SHOWED ABSOLUTELY NO EXPRESSION. HIS BOND WAS SET AT $2500. LET'S GET TO CARLOS SUAREZ FROM OUR SISTER STATION IN MIAMI WHO HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THE STORY CLOSELY ALL DAY. BIEBER HAS BONDED OUT OF JAIL, RIGHT? THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. AFTER HE FINISHED THE CONCERT, THE 19-YEAR-OLD GOT OUT OF THE COUNTY JAIL, GOT ON TOP OF AN SUV AND BEGAN WAVING TO FANS AND POSTED $2500 BOND AFTER GETTING SLAPPED WITH THREE MISDEMEANORS INCLUDING A D.U.I. IN TYPICAL HOLLYWOOD FASHION, JUSTIN BIEBER STOOD ATOP AN SUV TO WAVE TO FANS AS HE LEFT THE COUNTY JAIL, A FAR CRY FROM EARLIER IN THE DAY WHEN THE TEEN, WEARING A RED JUMPSUIT, APPEARED BEFORE A JUDGE. ALL RIGHT. THE 1ST CASE THIS AFTERNOON IS JUSTIN BIEBER. THE 19-YEAR-OLD WAS RELEASED ON $2500 BOND AFTER HE WAS ARRESTED ON MIAMI BEACH EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. OH, MY GOD. POLICE SAY BIEBER WAS STREET RACING WITH A FRIEND WHEN COPS PULLED THE TWO OVER. BIEBER TOLD OFFICERS HE SMOKED WEED, WAS ON ANTIDEPRESSANTS AND HAD A FEW DRINKS. WHEN HE OPENED UP THE WINDOW AND CONFRONTED MR. BIEBER, HE SMELLED A STRONG ODOR OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE. HE BLEW A .02, FAR BELOW THE LEGAL LIMIT IN FLORIDA, BUT NOT FOR SOMEONE UNDER THE AGE OF 21. YOU'RE CHARGED WITH THE FOLLOWING, D.U.I. ALCOHOL OR DRUGS, RESISTING WITHOUT VIOLENCE AND DRIVING WITH AN EXPIRED DRIVER'S LICENSE. BIEBER GOT MOUTHY WITH OFFICERS AT ONE POINT SAYING, QUOTE, "WHAT THE EXPLETIVE DID I DO, WHY DID YOU STOP ME?" HE HIRED TWO HIGH-PROFILE ATTORNEYS TO REPRESENT HIM. HE'S BEEN RELEASED ON BAIL. THE STATE AND I AGREED THE STANDARD BAIL WOULD APPLY IN THIS CASE AND THEY HAVE NOT ASKED FOR INCREASED BAIL BECAUSE OF HIS POPULARITY OR FAME. BIEBER IS SET TO BE ARRAIGNED IN THREE WEEKS. IT'S UNCLEAR IF HE PLANS ON STAYING IN SOUTH FLORIDA UNTIL HIS NEXT COURT APPEARANCE. REPORTING IN MIAMI, CARLOS SUAREZ. BACK TO YOU. THE STORY HAS TAKEN ON A LIFE OF ITS OWN. THERE'S MORE ON THE BIEBER BUST ON CLICKORLANDO.COM, INCLUDING HIS ARREST REPORT AND A

Bieber smiled in his mug shot released about 11 a.m., several hours after two black Cadillac Escalades blocked access to northbound Pine Tree Drive for a drag race -- Bieber, in a rented canary yellow Lamborghini, and his friend R&B singer Khalil Sharief, in a ruby red Ferrari.

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Bieber, 19, made a brief appearance through a video link before a Miami judge, who set a "standard" $2,500 bond for his release Thursday afternoon.

The singer, dressed in an orange jail uniform, stood silently with his lips sometimes pursed as attorney Roy Black represented him in the hearing.

Black told Judge Joseph Farina that he had been retained by Bieber's manager. He said his partner had been denied access to Bieber in jail before the hearing.

About 4 a.m., officers spotted the 19-year-old speeding in the residential neighborhood. Bieber was going double the speed limit, and was defiant after police stopped him near Pine Tree Drive and 41st Street.

According to the arrest report, Bieber asks the officer "why did you stop me?" who said he smelled alcohol in Bieber's breath. Model Chantel Jeffries was in the passenger seat. The officer asked Bieber to step out of the car.

"Why the f---- are you doing this?" Bieber asked the officer, as he kept his hands in his pockets.

"What the f-- did I do? Why did you stop me?"

The officer tried to pat him down.

"I ain't got no f--- weapons. Why do you have to search me? What the f--- is this about?"

As the officer grabbed Bieber's right hand to handcuff him, Bieber began to resist arrest, police said.

"What the f--- are you doing?"

Two officers placed him into Miami Beach police custody. Sgt. Bobby Hernandez said Bieber failed the field sobriety test.

"He had consumed some alcohol and he had been smoking marijuana," Miami Beach Police Chief Raymond Martinez said. "He had consumed some pharmaceutical drugs."

On his way to the Miami Beach police department Bieber told an officer that he was coming back from recording music at a studio. Fans on social media placed Bieber partying at SET Nightclub, 320 Lincoln Road, in South Beach.

Police are charging Bieber with driving under the influence, resisting arrest without violence and driving without a valid driver's license. Both of the cars were impounded.

Last week, police searched his Calabasas, Calif., home in connection with a recent egg-throwing incident involving Bieber's neighbor. The neighbor's house suffered an estimated $20,000 in damage, which makes the alleged vandalism a felony.

He was cooperative with the dozen deputies, but he did not answer questions about the alleged vandalism, police said.

Deputies at the Lost Hills Sheriff's Station, which serves an affluent section of Los Angeles County just east of Malibu, have become familiar with Bieber since he moved into a $6.4 million home in The Oaks neighborhood two years ago.

Neighbors have dialed 911 several times to complain that the teenage multimillionaire was speeding down their residential streets in his high-performance cars. One neighbor accused Bieber of spitting in his face during a heated confrontation last March. Deputies have responded to complaints about loud parties at Bieber's place.

Except for warnings, nothing was done. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office concluded that they couldn't prove the spitting or speeding cases in court, so they declined to prosecute.

Prosecutors also rejected a misdemeanor battery complaint from a photographer who accused Bieber of attacking him in the parking lot of a Calabasas shopping center as he was taking photos of Bieber and his then-girlfriend, Selena Gomez, in May 2012.

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